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In his staff development companion to Reading for Their Life, Alfred Tatum demonstrates the power enabling texts can have to change the life of African American adolescent males--and every student in the class. On this powerful DVD, Alfred takes you into Deborah Osher's classroom to see how his strategies work in regular, mixed-race/mixed-gender settings. Through his coaching commentary and her teaching moves, you'll see how to leverage enabling texts to connect black, white, and Latino male and female students with empowering reading and writing instruction. You'll witness the transformation that can happen when students begin reading and writing texts that they find meaningful and significant. You'll also see firsthand how by constructing their own ""textual lineages""--lists of books, poems and other works they believe they will always find meaningful--they draw a roadmap for school and life by developing academic and real-world resiliency.

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Alfred Tatum is the author of the Heinemann titles Reading for Their Life and its DVD staff development companion Reading and Writing for Resiliency. Alfred's textual lineage includes such works as Black Boy, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas. He grew up in the Ida B. Wells housing projects in Chicago, embracing literacy as a way out of violence and poverty. Today his research and advocacy are aimed at advancing the literacy development of adolescents, and especially African American boys in urban communities. Alfred is the author of the NCTE James N. Britton Award - winning Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males, an associate professor in the Literacy, Language, and Culture Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Director of the UIC Reading Clinic, and a former middle school teacher and reading specialist.

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